## Metadata - Author: [[Resmaa Menakem]] - Full Title: The Quaking of America - Category: #books ## Highlights - Few skills are more essential than the ability to settle your body. If you can settle your body, you are more likely to be calm, alert, and fully present, no matter what is going on around you. A settled body enables you to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well. Gather together a large group of unsettled bodies—or assemble a group of bodies and then unsettle them—and you get a mob or a riot. But bring a large group of settled bodies together and you have a potential movement—and a potential force for tremendous good in the world. A calm, settled body is the foundation for health, for healing, for helping others, and for changing the world. ([Location 890](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09VDYZNCR&location=890))